David Fox is a London-based back end developer with 13 years of experience building robust PHP-driven e-commerce and hospitality platforms, currently shaping microservice architectures at END. He has led redesigns and developer teams, owning client relationships and delivery for complex integrations across payments, ERP, fulfillment, and booking systems. Comfortable across the full stack, David has modernised legacy Zend stacks with PSR-compliant components and introduced Symfony/Laravel parts to improve maintainability and testing. An active open-source contributor, he has enhanced the php-censor CI server by improving linting, error logging and user management—practical work that reflects his focus on reliable developer tooling. With a BSc in Mathematics from Warwick and hands-on experience in accountancy/operations, he brings analytical rigor and operational empathy to engineering decisions.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Mathematics at University of Warwick
PHP Censor is an open source self-hosted continuous integration server for PHP projects.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:9 commits, 6 PRs, 3 comments in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:David primarily focused on improving and extending the PHP Censor continuous integration server. Their contributions include implementing functionality to support PHP short tags in the PHP Parallel Lint plugin, correcting a bug in the handling of the `shorttags` configuration option, and enhancing error logging within the PHPDocBlockChecker plugin. Additionally, the user made changes to the user management functionality and added a console command for expiring old builds.
Contributions:57 commits, 1 branch, 1 issue in 4 years 1 month
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